Hey everybody! I've been lurking around here for awhile, but haven't posted before.
I just wanted to bring something to the attention of this list. It seems the website thefreedictionary.com, which has been mirroring wikipedia content for awhile now, has produced some sort of widget that gives an "article of the day" with a link back to a wikipedia they are mirroring.
Here's the thing, the widget doesn't credit wikipedia. It just says "Free content provided by The Free Dictionary." Isn't the widget a derivative work based on the wikipedia article (it includes a preview paragraph of text)? As such, shouldn't it have to credit wikipedia under the terms of the GFDL?
What do people think about this? Is it a bad thing? Is it a GFDL violation?
You can see lots of examples of the widget in action if you google "Free content provided by The Free Dictionary." Or you can go to: http://www.malaspina.com/home.htm to see one example.
-Andy
I'd say it is... I believe that you need to give credit if you reuse or modify the text. It's like Creative Commons.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Andrew Famiglietti afamiglietti@gmail.comwrote:
Hey everybody! I've been lurking around here for awhile, but haven't posted before.
I just wanted to bring something to the attention of this list. It seems the website thefreedictionary.com, which has been mirroring wikipedia content for awhile now, has produced some sort of widget that gives an "article of the day" with a link back to a wikipedia they are mirroring.
Here's the thing, the widget doesn't credit wikipedia. It just says "Free content provided by The Free Dictionary." Isn't the widget a derivative work based on the wikipedia article (it includes a preview paragraph of text)? As such, shouldn't it have to credit wikipedia under the terms of the GFDL?
What do people think about this? Is it a bad thing? Is it a GFDL violation?
You can see lots of examples of the widget in action if you google "Free content provided by The Free Dictionary." Or you can go to: http://www.malaspina.com/home.htm to see one example.
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The widget does not credit Wikipedia, but when you click on the "more" link, the article does at the bottom. If the widget pulls from more locations than Wikipedia, you might be complicating the software quite a bit for not much bang for the buck. Anyone that actually wants to read the article and clicks on the "more" link will see its from Wikipedia,
This seems no different to me than getting an answers.com hit in a search engine - the snippet doesn't always make it clear that it is using Wikipedia content until you click the link.
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Kevin Wong wikipedianmarlith@gmail.comwrote:
I'd say it is... I believe that you need to give credit if you reuse or modify the text. It's like Creative Commons.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Andrew Famiglietti afamiglietti@gmail.comwrote:
Hey everybody! I've been lurking around here for awhile, but haven't
posted
before.
I just wanted to bring something to the attention of this list. It seems the website thefreedictionary.com, which has been mirroring wikipedia
content
for awhile now, has produced some sort of widget that gives an "article
of
the day" with a link back to a wikipedia they are mirroring.
Here's the thing, the widget doesn't credit wikipedia. It just says "Free content provided by The Free Dictionary." Isn't the widget a derivative work based on the wikipedia article (it includes a preview paragraph of text)? As such, shouldn't it have to credit wikipedia under the terms of the GFDL?
What do people think about this? Is it a bad thing? Is it a GFDL
violation?
You can see lots of examples of the widget in action if you google "Free content provided by The Free Dictionary." Or you can go to: http://www.malaspina.com/home.htm to see one example.
-Andy _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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